Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project

Charlie Watts/Jim Keltner Project

ASIN: B00004T9SP

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The Charlie Watts-Jim Keltner Project contains some undeniably bewitching grooves, all of which reflect a 21st-century intersection of world beat, techno, and jazz. But here's the usual question: Is this meeting of great drummers really a jazz album? Sure, the tunes are named as dedications to a Mt Rushmore-sized litany of jazz drummers. But the tunes don't portray the individual drummers' styles. Rather, they evoke a feeling or mood--like a world tour played on acoustic and electronic percussion with a dance-club vibe prevalent throughout. Elements of swing, trad jazz (Watts's elemental Baby Dodds-like pulse on the spatial dirge "Tony Williams"), and bebop (the appearance of an uptempo piano trio in the Afro-techno aural collage known as "Max Roach") occur throughout. Overall, though, this is less a jazz set than a percussion ensemble's take on the global village, with "Kenny Clarke" sounding an eastern vibe and "Billy Higgins" portraying a blues beat as it might sound in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa, via Bombay. The concluding "Elvin Suite" is the most satisfying, and not coincidentally the most acoustic in character, with a Coltrane-ish tempo, McCoy Tyner-like piano filigrees, stylized swing brushes, and an enchanting South African-style vocal chorus with blues shout-outs. Watts, Keltner, and their label dub this "techno-world beat exotica," and it certainly shows traces of all. --Chip Stern

Tracks:

Shelby Manne
Art Blakey
Kenny Clarke
Tony Williams
Roy Haynes
Max Roach
Airto
Billy Higgins
Elvin Suite

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The Charlie Watts-Jim Keltner Project contains some undeniably bewitching grooves, all of which reflect a 21st-century intersection of world beat, techno, and jazz. But here's the usual question: Is this meeting of great drummers really a jazz album? Sure, the tunes are named as dedications to a Mt Rushmore-sized litany of jazz drummers. But the tunes don't portray the individual drummers' styles. Rather, they evoke a feeling or mood--like a world tour played on acoustic and electronic percussion with a dance-club vibe prevalent throughout. Elements of swing, trad jazz (Watts's elemental Baby Dodds-like pulse on the spatial dirge "Tony Williams"), and bebop (the appearance of an uptempo piano trio in the Afro-techno aural collage known as "Max Roach") occur throughout. Overall, though, this is less a jazz set than a percussion ensemble's take on the global village, with "Kenny Clarke" sounding an eastern vibe and "Billy Higgins" portraying a blues beat as it might sound in the Atlas Mountains of North Africa, via Bombay. The concluding "Elvin Suite" is the most satisfying, and not coincidentally the most acoustic in character, with a Coltrane-ish tempo, McCoy Tyner-like piano filigrees, stylized swing brushes, and an enchanting South African-style vocal chorus with blues shout-outs. Watts, Keltner, and their label dub this "techno-world beat exotica," and it certainly shows traces of all. --Chip Stern

Customer Reviews:

unexciting.......2007-04-28

A tributary album that ultimately falls short in my judgment, this experiment becomes far too cyclic and unexciting early on in our listening. The potential for great music existed when Keltner and Watts decided to collaborate, but this album does not make use of their talents appropriately. The overall structure is loose and chaotic, with repetitive beats that go on for miles on end in each direction.

This isn't the worst music you'll ever hear in life, but it isn't the best either. I don't despise this record; I just did not enjoy it. While the collaboration itself was somewhat mythical, the musical result was nauseating repetition. This is not an album that I toss in very often, and I will likely end up just trading it in with the record shop nearby.

Jaffa Cakes.......2006-09-08

This double album is as luxurious on the lugs as a sun-warmed bicycle seat is on the haunches. I picked it up for a couple of kopeks on a recent trip to Dublin and play it every time I do the wash-up, which is breakfast, dinner and tea on weekends and holidays and just dinnertime on weekdays. This is hands down the best washing-up music I've ever heard. Goes on for ages too without anything even approximating a botch in its brush and stick work. Charlie Watts is a genuine Mahubba Bubba, ain't he? Hasn't ever in my estimation put a foot wrong and by all accounts he's a decent skin too and will come down and talk to the punters between sets when he's over there at Ronnie Scott's. Don't know much about the other felly but he's obviously a mate of Charlie's so he's not likely to be any old teapot, now is he? The record is totally game ball in any case and it really doesn't matter which disk you have on at the time, they're both yummy chocolate-topped, orange-filled sponge cakes. Made in fact even more delicious by the self-aggrandising critical response you are apt to encounter here by certain jazz purists and at least one wallaby who seems to think he's defending Art Blakey against the grossest racial insult. Weeping Jeebus but can you imagine having an actual conversation with these jokers? Me, I'd rather go to an all-night dentist but hey that's just me, thin-skinned when it comes to junior achiever sensitivity training and bogus beatnik hauteur masquerading as customer comments. These absurd observations do serve a purpose though in that they make me like Charlie and Jim's collaborative bongo fest all the more--I mean who could honestly fail to enjoy almost everything inputters like these might choose to disparage? So crank this drum set way up, pull on your rubber gloves and make them bubbles fly.

you've got to be kidding.......2005-12-02

This is a joke, and I, nor the rest of the musical community should be laughing. If you like the 'grooves' on this cd (which are limp and lukewarm at best), then fine - just stop insulting real drummers and take their names off of the tracks - there's ZERO correlation. If there was any, it would be a racist one - Art Blakey - the blackest of the black drummers named on this cd - has a track full of African jungle drums and sounds under his name?
Attention all rockstar/producers: please invest your accumulated tour and royalty money into charities and quit using it to create musical abominations...humanity deserves better.

Something for Drummers and Dancers.......2004-09-02

Both Watts and Keltner have played on countless great rock albums, but neither are really great jazz drummers; that's okay, as there's really not much on this album that could be taken for jazz. Most of it is based on the eighth-note ostinato that characterizes the bulk of rock music. It's all interesting, to a point, but I don't think there's much here that has the timelessness of a good Stones album or any number of great Keltner-backed album.

Charlie is the best.......2003-11-26

There was a time in the 1980s when the Rolling Stones were about to split forever.
Mick Jagger had just released his first solo record (She's the Boss), and all the other Stones were busy working on their solo projects. Keith recorded Jumpin'Jack Flash with Ronnie Wood and Aretha Franklin, Keith produced a documentary on Chuck Berry (Hail Hail Rock and Roll), Keith did his solo album (Talk is Cheap). Ronnie Wood went on tour with Bo Diddley and recorded a Live at the Ritz. And there is Charlie Watts.
Charlie Watts' solo career is probably the most diversified, the most interesting of a Stone alone. The reason is that why the other Stones tend to replicate the Stones'magic formual on their own, Charlie does instead entirely different things. Charlie's first record was with the Charlie Watts Orchestra and it made masterful renditions of Jazz masterpieces from Stomping at the Savoy to Moonglow. Charlie's second solo project was a tribute to Charlie Parker. Then Charlie recorded two albums with the Charlie Watts Quintet--Warm and Tender (1993), and Long Ago and Far Away (1996) featuring Bernard Fowler, who has been the Rolling Stones' backing vocalist in the past three tours, as lead singer. The last of Charlie Watts'solo projects is Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project (2000). This is probably the most interesting and the most unexpected record from a Rolling Stone. The record makes in fact an interesting combination of ethic/world music and high tech --sequenced sounds, programs, that is all those instruments and things that are not to be found in any Rolling Stones record. The sound of Africa and Asia echo respectively in the elvin suite, and billy higgins. The Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project is really unusual and it's fun to listen to.

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Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project
Charlie Watts Jim Keltner Project
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Visi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004UB9O
Release Date: 2000-11-22

Album Description

Limited edition release for The Rolling Stones drummer and fellow drummer Jim Keltner (Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. A tribute to great jazz drummers including Shelly Manne, Kenny Clarke, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes and Max Roach to name a few. Each track is named after the drummer who inspired it on disc one, and disc two features remixes by Col dcut, Restless Soul, Modaji, Eat Static & Richie Stevens. 2000 release. Double slimline jewel case.

Album Details

Limited Edition with Bonus Disc Six Track CD with Remixes by Coldcut, Restless Soul, J Flava and Eat Static.

Just a Kiss: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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welcome, genevieve

Just a Kiss: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack , Sean Dinsmore , Les Nubians , Charlie Watts / Jim Keltner Project , Tara MacLean , Bossa Nostra / Bruna Lopez , DJ Rodriguez , Supreme Beings Of Leisure , Jocelyn Enriquez , and The Dum Dum Project
Manufacturer: Milan Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006IXHF
Release Date: 2002-09-24

Tracks:

Jackson Heist - The Dum Dum Project
Peanut Butter Salute
Midget Attack
A Little Bit Of Ectasy - Jocelyn Enriquez
Airport Ride
Airplane Music (Part 1)
Never The Same - Supreme Beings Of Leisure
Airplane Music (Part 2)
Walk Down Street
Bitches & Friends - DJ Rodriguez
Hospital (Part 1)
Hospital (Part 2)
Jackie - Bossa Nostra
Hospital (Part 3)
Funeral Organ Solo
Funeral Music
Divided - Tara MacLean
Park Cello (Part 1)
Demain (Jazz) - Les Nubians
Park Cello (Part 2)
'Just A Kiss' Theme
Max Roach - Charlie Watts
Love Is Coming Back - Genevieve Waite

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Actor Fisher Stevens's directorial debut, Just a Kiss, centers on three New York City couples caught in a whirlpool of infidelity. Its soundtrack slickly underscores the story's contemporary setting and mores with a heady, club-beat-fueled cocktail of nervous dance grooves, electronica, acid jazz post-modern pop, and R&B. Holding it all together is the savory, equally eclectic music and mixes of Boston native cum NYC clubmeister Sean Dinsmore, a.k.a. DJ Cavo. Dinsmore's own sideline Dum Dum Project kicks things off with the East Asian sitar and vocal samples of "Jackson Heist," while the electro-juiced soul of Jocelyn Enriquez, the dreamy trip-hop of Supreme Beings of Leisure, and the jazz-inflected pop of Bossa Nostra (with Bruna Lopez) and Tara MacLean tastefully punctuate the mixer's evocative soundscape. The avant-swing of "Max Roach" by the Charlie Watts-Jim Keltner Project and Genevieve Waite's 1930s-retro "Love Is Coming Back" offer some historic perspective, but it's Dinsmore's vision, be it club-savvy mixing or surprising classical influences, like "Funeral Music" and "Park Cello," that makes it all hang together. A pleasant, compelling surprise of a soundtrack. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

welcome, genevieve.......2003-03-12

If this is what it takes to get Genevieve Waite on CD, well, I guess its worth it. Genevieve was John Phillips ex-wife. The two of them collaborated on a long, lost album called Romance is on the Rise. Please, please, please someone!! Find it and release it. I'm sure there are dozens of us out there who will buy hundreds of copies for all our friends.
Kudos to who ever it was who thought of using this here.

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